1: D.N.A
2: Personal Genomics
3: Homo evolutis
4: Zoo in My Sequencer
5: No Organism is an Island
6: Terra-genoming
7: We are all Ecosystems Now
8: Biocoding the Earth
References
Further Reading
Index
Dawn Field is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford eResearch
Centre at the University of Oxford, and the Head of Molecular
Evolution and Bioinformatics Group, Biodiversity Programme, at the
NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology. She has collaborated on
metagenomics studies of the 'L4 site' in the Western Channel
Observatory, making it one of the best-characterized microbial
communities in the world.
Neil Davies lives on Moorea (sister island to Tahiti) in French
Polynesia where he is the Executive Director of the University of
California Berkeley's Gump South Pacific Research Station. He is
the lead principal investigator of the Moorea Biocode Project, a
$5m effort to sequence (DNA barcode) all non-microbial species on
the island.
Both are Research Associates of the Biodiversity Institute of
Oxford where they are using their complementary experiences to
cofound the international Genomic Observatories (GOs) Network. They
have published more than 140 scientific articles (including in
Science, Nature, Nature Genetics, Nature Biotechnology, Nature
Methods, and PNAS) and have research interests in evolution,
population genetics, genomics, metagenomics, DNA barcoding,
bioinformatics, biodiversity, and data
sharing. Both believe strongly in the power of concerted,
international community-driven scientific actions. Field is the
founder of the Genomic Standards Consortium, a growing nexus point
for a wide range of
international projects in this domain and both serve on its Board.
Together they are working to help champion the emergence of
'biodiversity genomics' as a scientific field.
`Review from previous edition Biocode provides a very readable
overview of the broad impact of genomics on our understanding of
life. I recommended it to readers of all levels with a love or
fascination of science.'
J. Craig Venter Ph.D.
`In this lovely, reaching, important book, Dawn Field and Neil
Davies show us the front edge of a scientific movement that is
transforming, simultaneously, science and our understanding of the
world. If you want to understand the biological future, read this
book. If you want to see what it looks like as scientists fumble
with unknowns too big to really grab a hold of, read this book. If
you want to know what the DNA in your house or pond or dog tell
about
you and the world, read this book.'
Rob Dunn, biologist, writer and associate professor in the
Department of Biological Sciences at North Carolina State
University
`Field and Davies survey the greatest hits and promises of
genomics'
Nature
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